| Audio from the Oct. 7, 2010, Nobel Prize press conference with Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa at the Instituto Cervantes (Click to download MP3):
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Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Mario Vargas Llosa, who is the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton's Program in Latin American Studies, is spending the semester teaching writing and giving talks on campus. Here, Vargas Llosa talks to (from left) juniors Chi Anunwa and Albert Fernandez after class. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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This year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, gives an address on Monday, Oct. 11 at Princeton University, where he is a distinguished visitor this semester. His lecture focused on the state of contemporary culture and literary discourse. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Vargas Llosa addresses the crowd at a public lecture scheduled before he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He told the audience, "It is great to be honored for doing what you love." Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Vargas Llosa's address discussed the trend of trivialization in modern culture. He was invited to serve as the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton's Program in Latin American Studies "because he is, without a doubt, the most important Latin American writer working today," said Gallo. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Students were eager to ask Vargas Llosa questions at his address Monday in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall. Vargas Llosa offered to reply to questions posed in Spanish, French or English, but all the students addressed him in Spanish. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, chair of the Lewis Center, speaks at the reception celebration, praising Vargas Llosa's work. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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At a celebratory reception hosted by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Program in Latin American Studies, Vargas Llosa (left) is joined in a toast by Rubén Gallo, professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures and director of the Program in Latin American Studies. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Vargas Llosa talks with John Forbes Nash Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 and a senior research mathematician in the Department of Mathematics. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |
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Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman congratulates Vargas Llosa at the reception preceding the lecture, joined by Gallo. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson (2010) |